When Dawn Evans was 12, she had to choose between two loves, acting and basketball. In picking hoops, she eventually landed a starring role. The 5-7 sophomore point guard at James Madison is leading the country in scoring, averaging 24.4 points a game, after learning valuable lessons during parts of two years she spent in Hollywood, living in the same complex as Hilary Duff, a Disney star, and Frankie Muniz, Malcolm of TV hit Malcolm in the Middle.

Northwestern Oklahoma State will not play its scheduled NAIA quarterfinal game at defending national champion Carroll College on Saturday after discovering that three players were academically ineligible.

Maybe the Sacramento State men's basketball team should consider changing their name from the Hornets to the Twins. On the team of 15, Sacramento State (4-23, 2-13) has three players with a twin brother. It seems fitting their head coach, Jerome Jenkins, has a pair of 10-year-old fraternal twins himself, Jalen and Jada.

Al Thornton was in the wrong place at the wrong time the past two years. But not anymore. Thornton developed into one of the top forwards in the country at Florida State. Yet his play drew little attention as rival University of Florida won back-to-back NCAA titles with Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer leading the way.

Indiana's Terry Hoeppner has returned to his coaching post. Hoeppner temporarily turned over the Hoosiers to assistant head coach Bill Lynch two weeks ago after announcing he would undergo his second brain surgery since December. Elsewhere, former Texas running back Ramonce Taylor pleaded guilty Tuesday to marijuana possession.